14 best-selling science fiction books like Operation Arcana by John Joseph Adams

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Operation Arcana

By: John Joseph Adams

3.58

Format: 320 pages, ebook

In the realms of fantasy, the battlefield is where heroism comes alive, magic is unleashed, and leg…

If you liked the science fiction plot in Operation Arcana by John Joseph Adams , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)

By: Glen Cook

3.93

Format: 319 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some f… read more

Similar categories in Glen Cook's The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1) book and John Joseph Adams's Operation Arcana

  • military fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Okay, Croaker. What the hell happened?"

-Glen Cook, The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)

"One endured with humble dignity the consequences of youthful folly."

-Glen Cook, The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)

"Nevertheless, four hours after dawn they began dying for their cause."

-Glen Cook, The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)

"Evil is relative…You can’t hang a sign on it. You can’t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger."

-Glen Cook, The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)

Cover of Wild Cards (Wild Cards, #1) by George R.R. Martin, Roger Zelazny, Brian Bolland, Howard Waldrop, Mike Zeck, Walter Jon Williams, Stephen Leigh, Lewis Shiner, Edward Bryant, Victor Milán, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Leanne C. Harper, John J.  Miller

2. Wild Cards (Wild Cards, #1)

By: George R.R. Martin , Roger Zelazny , Brian Bolland , Howard Waldrop , Mike Zeck , Walter Jon Williams , Stephen Leigh , Lewis Shiner , Edward Bryant , Victor Milán , Melinda M. Snodgrass , Leanne C. Harper , John J. Miller

3.69

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Just after World War 2 over New York City, an alien virus transforms human genetics and goes recess… read more

Similar categories in George R.R. Martin's Wild Cards (Wild Cards, #1) book and John Joseph Adams's Operation Arcana

  • urban fantasy
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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3. Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

By: Mary Roach

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

"America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable t… read more

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  • audiobook
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4. The White Rose (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #3)

By: Glen Cook

4.19

Format: 294 pages,

She is the last hope of good in the war against the evil sorceress known as the Lady. From a secret… read more

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  • military fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
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5. Shadows Linger (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #2)

By: Glen Cook

3.46

Format: None pages,

Mercenary soldiers in the service of the Lady, the Black Company stands against the rebels of the W… read more

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  • military fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction

6. The Curse of Chalion (World of the Five Gods, #1)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

A man broken in body and spirit, Cazaril, has returned to the noble household he once served as pag… read more

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7. Blackout (Newsflesh Trilogy, #3)

By: Mira Grant

4.02

Format: 982 pages, Paperback

Rise up while you can. -Georgia Mason The year was 2014. The year we cured cancer. The year we cure… read more

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8. Blackwing (Raven's Mark, #1)

By: Ed McDonald

4.10

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

The republic faces annihilation, despite the vigilance of Galharrow's Blackwings. When a raven tatt… read more

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  • fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
"Just because the wolf pack fears your sling doesn’t mean you stop carrying stones."

-Ed McDonald, Blackwing (Raven's Mark, #1)

"Fight the battles you can win, run from those you can’t. Good words to keep you alive."

-Ed McDonald, Blackwing (Raven's Mark, #1)

"It is the way of the world that good people try to do the right thing for the wrong people's wrong reasons."

-Ed McDonald, Blackwing (Raven's Mark, #1)

"Just because he wasn’t Nameless didn’t make it smart to underestimate him; a knife may not be a longsword, but the edge will cut you all the same."

-Ed McDonald, Blackwing (Raven's Mark, #1)

9. Redemption (Infinity Blade, #2)

By: Brandon Sanderson

4.21

Format: 391 pages, ebook

Long months have passed since Siris and the God King, enemies betrayed together, were left to rot i… read more

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10. The Cold Dish (Walt Longmire, #1)

By: Craig Johnson

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

Walt Longmire, sheriff of Wyoming's Absaroka County, knows he's got trouble when Cody Pritchard is … read more

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11. Deadline (Newsflesh Trilogy, #2)

By: Mira Grant

3.91

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

Shaun Mason is a man without a mission. Not even running the news organization he built with his si… read more

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12. Feed (Newsflesh Trilogy, #1)

By: Mira Grant

4.10

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we created s… read more

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13. Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

By: Hannah Kaner

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Kissen’s family were killed by zealots of a fire god. Now, she makes a living killing gods, and enj… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"But gods love martyrs."

-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

"Gods love martyrs. - Kissen"

-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

"Kissen decided to be more proud than afraid."

-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

"I want you to do this with me, not for me. - Arren"

-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

Cover of The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) by Malka Ann Older

14. The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

By: Malka Ann Older

3.64

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set … read more

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) book and John Joseph Adams's Operation Arcana

  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) by Martha Wells

15. System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

By: Martha Wells

4.22

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

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16. Black River Orchard

By: Chuck Wendig

4.13

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A small town is transformed by dark magic when a strange tree begins bearing magical apples in this… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Wendig's Black River Orchard book and John Joseph Adams's Operation Arcana

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1) by Micaiah Johnson

17. The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)

By: Micaiah Johnson

3.94

Format: 336 pages, None

An outsider who can travel between worlds discovers a secret that threatens her new home and her fr… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Of course, humanity couldn't just look. We had to enter. We had to touch and taste and take."

-Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)

"„An angel fallen from the sky, with my name on her back so I would know the gift was meant for me."

-Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)

"It is only one world in infinite universes where this impossible happiness exists, but that is what makes it so valuable."

-Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)

"I confused routine for reliability and reliability for safety. I had no idea the chaos I was capable of holding inside me."

-Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)

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18. The Shadow of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #1)

By: John Gwynne

4.23

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Set in a brand-new, Norse-inspired world, and packed with myth, magic and bloody vengeance, The Sha… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Courage is being scared of a task and doing it anyway." - Ortha | Page 139"

-John Gwynne, The Shadow of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #1)

"We are the Bloodsworn, closer than kin. A brotherhood, a sisterhood: we live and die together."

-John Gwynne, The Shadow of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #1)

"Los dioses Orna y Ulfrir habían encontrado a su primogénita muerta, con las alas arrancadas. Lo había hecho Lik-Rifa, la diosa dragón, la propia hermana de Orna. Como venganza, Orna y Ulfrir persigui…"

-John Gwynne, The Shadow of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #1)

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19. Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

By: Martha Wells

4.31

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

No, I didn’t kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn’t dump the body in the station mall. When M… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Tural left with the air of escaping before things got worse."

-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

"The only thing worse than humans infantilizing bots was bots infantilizing themselves."

-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

"Humans so the "make it a question so it doesn't sound so bad" thing and it still sounds bad."

-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

"Humans do the "make it a question so it doesn't sound so bad" thing and it still sounds bad."

-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

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20. Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

By: Martha Wells

4.38

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

Murderbot wasn’t programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it res… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Why is this ship so old and shitty?"

-Martha Wells, Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

"I was having an emotion, and I hate that."

-Martha Wells, Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

"But they were humans— who knows why they did anything?"

-Martha Wells, Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

"Once I started telling the truth, it was hard to stop."

-Martha Wells, Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

Cover of No Gods, No Monsters (Convergence Saga, #1) by Cadwell Turnbull

21. No Gods, No Monsters (Convergence Saga, #1)

By: Cadwell Turnbull

3.45

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

One October morning, Laina gets the news that her brother has been shot and killed by Boston cops. … read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5) by Martha Wells

22. Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

By: Martha Wells

4.47

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

It calls itself Murderbot, but only when no one can hear. It worries about the fragile human cre… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Ugh, emotions."

-Martha Wells, Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

"So, you have a relationship with this transport."

-Martha Wells, Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

"I'm a murderbot, I don't give a crap about boats."

-Martha Wells, Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

"I am actually trying my best despite the fuck-ups."

-Martha Wells, Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

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23. Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.03

Format: 139 pages, Kindle Edition

Return to the world of Rivers of London in this first short story collection from #1 Sunday Times b… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • magic
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I found that when people are nursing a grievance it’s a waste of time trying to explain the ubiquitous nature of coincidence in the universe. People always want things to happen for a reason."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection

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24. The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)

By: Christopher Buehlman

4.23

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Kinch Na Shannack owes the Takers Guild a small fortune for his education as a thief, which include… read more

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  • fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"This heavy, grass-loving dog,"

-Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)

"He who leaps at the moon Into cowshyte falls. Glory unto cowshyte!"

-Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)

"When listening for danger, one must never mistake silence for safety."

-Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)

"Funny how an attack by a sea monster makes everyone less interested in a duel."

-Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)

Cover of The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown

25. The Scourge Between Stars

By: Ness Brown

3.59

Format: 165 pages, Paperback

Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars is a tense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror blend set aboard a … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Auberon (The Expanse, #7.5) by James S.A. Corey

26. Auberon (The Expanse, #7.5)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.19

Format: 78 pages, ebook

A novella set in the universe of James S. A. Corey’s NYT-bestselling Expanse series, Auberon explor… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
"There’s this thing when you get older where you have to make a choice. Everyone does. You have to decide whether you care more about being your best self or your real one. If you’re more loyal to who…"

-James S.A. Corey, Auberon (The Expanse, #7.5)

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27. Kaiju: Battlefield Surgeon

By: Matt Dinniman

3.92

Format: 660 pages, Kindle Edition

A LitRPG Adventure Fantasy meets horror in this gore-soaked, standalone LitRPG adventure!It had se… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Maybe i'll go to the same place? Maybe, there will be stars?"

-Matt Dinniman, Kaiju: Battlefield Surgeon

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28. Hard Reboot

By: Django Wexler

3.74

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

Django Wexler's Hard Reboot features giant mech arena battles and intergalactic diplomacy. When did… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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29. Operation Arcana

By: John Joseph Adams

3.58

Format: 320 pages, ebook

In the realms of fantasy, the battlefield is where heroism comes alive, magic is unleashed, and leg… read more

Similar categories in John Joseph Adams's Operation Arcana book and John Joseph Adams's Operation Arcana

  • urban fantasy
  • military fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

30. Shaggy Dog Bridge: A Black Company Story (The Chronicles of the Black Company #2.2)

By: Glen Cook

3.69

Format: None pages, ebook

None read more

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31. The Best of Glen Cook

By: Glen Cook

4.04

Format: 552 pages, Hardcover

The best short fiction of legendary author Glen Cook (The Black Company, the Dread Empire) is colle… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction

23 best-selling fiction books like Operation Arcana by John Joseph Adams

Transform Your Habits

The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)

Glen Cook

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Wild Cards (Wild Cards, #1)

George R.R. Martin , Roger Zelazny , Brian Bolland , Howard Waldrop , Mike Zeck , Walter Jon Williams , Stephen Leigh , Lewis Shiner , Edward Bryant , Victor Milán , Melinda M. Snodgrass , Leanne C. Harper , John J. Miller

3.69

Transform Your Habits

The White Rose (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #3)

Glen Cook

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Shadows Linger (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #2)

Glen Cook

3.46

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21 Top fiction books like The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown

Transform Your Habits

The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Thornhedge

T. Kingfisher

4.00

Transform Your Habits

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Blighted Stars (The Devoured Worlds, #1)

Megan E. O'Keefe

4.11

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